the initial structure of this single family house consists of an old farm building that was re-modeled in the 1980-ies in such a way, that today it takes radical approaches in order to turn it into 2 unit s that comply with contemporary requirements.
The former stable at the Southern side will be replaced by a light wood construction with large glazings , blending the living area with the surrounding landscape. The gabled roof of the remaining part of the building as well as some parts of the facade of its addition will be cladded in currogated fibre cement , referring to the standard material of the neighborring farm buildings after typicical post-war modernization.

During the next years the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records wants to transform the former headquarter of the GDR State Security in Berlin Lichtenberg into an international Campus for Democracy. A Campus for political and historical education and exchange. This process will be launched by turning Haus 22, the former Officers Canteen temporarely into a flexible cultural space. Within the next two years our Central Stasi-Shelf-Structure will serve to host a variety of conferences, lectures, film- screenings, exhibitions and dance performances .

the footprint of community house Grüne Wand was directly informed by the requiremnts of urban planning. A slim and open, seemingly unfinnished structural system for individual appropriation of each unit, that in addition is freestanding in three directions. Since each unit provides open orientation to three sides, the Southern side is organized as a Wintergarden: a climatic powerhouse!
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ca. 750 m² gross floor area,
2015-17/ not realized
the group could not succeed in acquiring the lot

''Lufträume: wo nichst ist, ist alles möglich"
prefabricated Supermarket-Structures (so called ‘Einheitsserien-Kaufhallen’, EKS) were placed during the late 1970ies in East Berlin within the remnants of 19th century urban fabric. These left-overs and voids still produce the perception of openess, that is so typicall to Berlin. With our study we follow the speculative guideline ' where there is nothing, everything is possible!*'

MARGARETE SCHÜTTE-LIHOTZKY PROJEKTSTIPENDIUM 2010 for Barbara Ludescher
granted in 2010 by the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria

*' : Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007

the planned publication, Verlag der UdK Berlin, ISBN 978-3-89462-226-8 has to be revised,
since 7 out of 15 lots that were analyzed , have been undergone massiv construction meanwhile.

we propose an Open Field in the shape of a star for further developement of the Campus Fachhochschule Vienna.
The star allows protection from traffic noise while defining a center with a very distinct character. From the central Open Field all other areas of the campus can be viewed.

115.000 m² GFA
open urban design competition, 4.Price
2017

Common Room – Architecture, Democracy and Emotions in Berlin

panel discussion on the significance of emotions and feelings towards our built environment and public spaces in post-war democracies:

During this 10-day Summerschool participants will work in Berlin-Lichtenberg on the premises of the former headquarters complex of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi), now home to about 1,600 newcomers among other uses. The entire district is home to 6.000 newcomers, yet, its urban fabric of predominantly prefabricated modernist high-rises (Plattenbau), does not appear open to small-scale businesses or social encounter.
Exploring Lichtenbergs potential for urban spaces of interaction, the Summer-school aims to provoke thought around evolving pluralist neighbourhoods.
In a first phase, participants will engage with inhabitants of the emergency shelter, in international teams to visualize talents of “Future Maker/s.” During the second week, participants will develop prototypes and interventions to test “Future Market/s”. These can be inside shelter itself, the larger Stasi complex, or in the surrounding neighbourhood and might include a mobile barber- shop, a textile workshop, a graphic design office, a cell phone repair shop, or a tea lounge among other ideas. To incorporate intangible talents, we will also explore the opportunity to connect to existing local time-banks. Here, time for tasks, errands or lessons is used as currency and as such, no work permit is required.

The solar thermal PowerHaus does not meet the standards of the german Energy Conservation Regulation (ENEV) - nevertheless it is far better!

This case study is an inhabitable powerhouse, developed for a typical suburban household of 4 persons, its energy surplus caters 2 mid-size E-cars and an additional E-scooter. The building combines two typologies –a green house situated in front of a terraced detached house in accordance with the principle of a conventional heat trap with storage mass behind. Thus, the building follows a contrary approach to the conventional low-energy building. It refuses the logic of mummifying buildings envelopes with ordinary, composite systems of toxic, monolithic thermal insulation as promoted by the construction building industry. Instead it exposes and opens up itself towards the environmental conditions of its location. Interaction with nature is achieved by a carefully balanced stratification of differentiated inside climates by the specific layering of the building structure and envelope.
The Greenhouse is not only a superb extension of living area but also a true little Kraftwerk!

presentation of our research on centrally planned Kaufhallen- ESK 400-1200- during the GDR-regime at the ‘Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’ conference and forum, organized by the Transmodern collective and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

April 29th, 5pm at Collegium Hungaricum, 10117 Berlin

K11 community Lofthouse / Baugruppe

the idea is to offer an open, seemingly unfinnished structural system for individual appropriation of each unit. The units are characterized by a 45cm step in each level, deviding the floors in a side towards the street and a side towards the courtyard on slightly different levels. These floors are stacked in such a way on top of each other, that closed facades (indiividual rooms) and open loggias (common areas) are alternating.

ca. 910 m² gross floor area,
2014/ not realized
the group could not succeed in acquiring the lot

Fade to Grey II, attic renovation in Berlin Prenzlauerberg

Grey.
It makes no statement whatever, it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

Gerhard Richter interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, 1996

Grey.
As backdrop for the extensive collection of art and artifacts by a business women based in both, Beijing and Berlin

120 m² GFA / BGF, 90.000 Euro

Renovation of Faculty of Architecture at the University of Arts Berlin / UdK Berlin

FADE TO GREY (I):
All architectural elements - from the newly installed surface to all existing walls and ceilings - are unified in RAL 7035, Light grey.distinct elements, such as signage, the seating and view protection screen on the full height glazing between the café and kitchen are colored in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. The proportionally calibrated composition of (CMYK ) colored dots on the screen and the seats are another playfull variation of that same grey.

Grey.
It makes no statement whatever, it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

Gerhard Richter interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, 1996

Grey.
As backdrop for the ever changing appropriation of space- by students, teachers and researchers at the faculty .

MAKE-CITY: UTOPIEN IN ZEITEN DES WOHNUNGSMANGELS / Utopias in Times of Housing Shortages

The former Stalin-Allee and its Cold War rival Hansaviertel find themselves on their way to becoming world heritage sites. In light of their success -and the current shortage of housing in Berlin- the panel will consider the question: what residential utopias exist today?
Dr Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst, Prof.Dr Tobias Just, Dr. R. Hillmann and Oliver von Spreckelsen

Students in mixed teams from Columbia University New York, KU Leuven and UdK Berlin are to develop, together with refugees convincing concepts for housing on a given site in Berlin Lichtenberg, by Berlin public housing agency Howoge. Housing schemes, that can be built fast, and become an integral part of the neighborhood in the long run. Sustainability and the development of new typologies are as important as the ability to incorporate off-site construction methods, do-it-yourself construction and flexibility over time.

The building is for two siblings, consisting of two very distinctive floors situated atop of a remaining basement. House A-mann aims to blur the boundaries between man made space and natural elements of suburbia.

5 patiohouses, 3 rowhouses and 6 apartments are grouped around an elevated wooden platform - creating a suburban cluster with a minimal footprint.

feasibilty study by the city of Schwerin, 2005

Studioberlin 01

After being bricked for almost 50 years, a former passage to the courtyard of a typical 19th century ‘Mietskaserne’ was opened and transformed into a rough and basic studio for a young Berlin design firm.
In addition, this courtyard is historically charged, since it had been part of former the death strip right behind the Berlin Wall from 1963-1989.